Help with identifying the bride, please

[Janet in Yorkshire]

Please don't waste any time researching the groom as I know who he is. It's the bride I can't place before the wedding. (They had two daughters, registered Q1 1919 & Q1 1921)

Married at the parish church Pocklington (East Yorkshire) on 4 August 1918.
Bessie Evans, spinster, 25 yrs, daughter of Richard Evans, deceased. Bride was of Loughborough, Leicestershire, at the time of the marriage.
Groom was a local man, Edward Johnson, 22 yrs, soldier, of Yapham (in Pocklington). The marriage was by licence and witnesses were Dora Ann Johnson, groom's sister, & Arthur Tenneson/Jenneson.

Jay

[SmallTownGirl]

Have you found them on the 1939 Register?

STG

[Janet in Yorkshire]

Thanks for looking, STG - N0, that's one of the reasons why I was trying to identify Bessie.

Jay

[Katarzyna]

Do you have a death for Edward, Jay?

[GallowayLass]

This one maybe?
EVANS, ELIZABETH mms HAYES
GRO Reference: 1893 D Quarter in LOUGHBOROUGH Volume 07A Page 139

[GallowayLass]

A possible sister?
EVANS, MARY MARGARET mms HAYES
GRO Reference: 1891 D Quarter in LOUGHBOROUGH Volume 07A Page 148

[Janet in Yorkshire]

Kat, no I don't have the death for Edward. There are too many possibilities, but not on his home turf, as it were.
GL, thanks for your suggestions - it COULD be her, but at present all I have to go on is the marriage cert, which gives place of residence at time of the marriage, rather than place of birth. I'll try to chase that family up in census and see if it sheds any light on the matter.

Jay

[Janet in Yorkshire]

Loughborough marriage - June 1889 Richard Evans & Martha Hayes.
1891 in Loughborough with infant son John - Richard was a farmer.

Jay

[Katarzyna]

I thought she might have remarried. There is this one in E Yorks.
Marriages Dec 1924

Johnson Bessie Shipley Patrington 9d 669
Shipley Edwin Johnson Patrington 9d 669

1939
60 West Gate , Driffield U.D., Yorkshire

Bessie Shipley 14 May 1893 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married
Edwin Shipley 04 Feb 1892 Male Grocer Married
Plus 2 closed records

[Janet in Yorkshire]

I'll chase that one up, Kaz, thank you.

In 1901 the Evans family were in Little Bronhall, Bossingham, Upper Hardres, Bridge, Kent.

Jay

[Chrissie Smiff]

Loughborough marriage - June 1889 Richard Evans & Martha Hayes.
1891 in Loughborough with infant son John - Richard was a farmer.

Jay

That family were in Surrey in 1911.

[Janet in Yorkshire]

1911 the Evans family were in Guiles Hill Farm House Ockham Ripley Woking, Ockham, Surrey.

Jay

ETA - thanks, Chrissie our posts crossed!